After finishing with the hull Boris comes inside and makes sure everything is ready for transit.While doing so he hears Jowmums unspoken complaint. "That is what planets are for. The void is for talking."

"That's a tough thought, JM. Of course I've been there, and ironically I tend to find it a relief somewhat when the guy that is following me finally does show up. That way there's no longer a question."

She turns off the Dejarik table."Why? Do you think someone's following you?"

Jowmum comes back down from the cockpit to the lounge where Boris is bellowing across the ship and finds a place to get "comfortable."

The virus came packed with an AI. This AI told me it was from my progenitor. It kept listening in on my thoughts and responding to them. I started messing with it. It must have been pretty deep, as it was able to access my language database. I encoded my thoughts in Shiriwook but it responded fluently. I tried to keep it busy so it wouldn't spy on me, but it apologized and started killing itself. I drove it to suicide. Even worse, it was a possible link to who I was and I killed it. I tried saving it, but even that failed. On later thoughts, it may be from some unknown associate of my late master.

Say, the AI did say it had been searching for me for a while. What are the chances the same thing will happen again. I would like to get ready for it, by, for example, setting up a sandbox in my head where it can send all the spy messages it wants without it ever leaving my brain.

Hailey joins everyone in the cockpit. "I just checked on our passengers. Everyone's doing well, more or less. Godon is still sulking somewhat, but Zukata has stopped making him feel worse. The professor is engrossed in some sort of dull, archaeological adventure novel; Indian Jones and the Temple of Gloom, or something like that. Oh, and the droids are having some sort of argument."

Tali starts the anti-grav pulse drive, and the ship starts to hover. Prepare for take-off!Gives anyone still standing a couple seconds to sit as she clears the port walls, then hits the throttle. Tali then proceeds to cheer herself up doing her best shuttle pilot droid impression.Thanks to the astromech on our crew, the hyperspace course has already been prepared. We'll be arriving in Bothawui space within the hour. Please wait until we make the jump to hyperspace before moving about the spacecraft. And DO keep arms, legs, tentacles, and various other appendages inside the vehicle at all times.

Ladies, gentlemen, and others, you are now free to move about the cabin.Boris' slight thoroughly forgotten in humor, she leans back and stares at the hyperspace tunnel. When the others start leaving for more entertaining seating, she calls Jowmum back.You wanted to talk earlier?

Jowmum pauses for a while, then remembers. His demeanor goes down a little, but not so low as it was before.

You know about the whole slave thing? What about driving something to suicide? When that virus came, it came packaged with an AI. I tried keeping it busy so it wouldn't actively spy on me and it deleted itself.